diff --git a/app/requirements.txt b/app/requirements.txt
index 5ee2a4d5..1b82be65 100644
--- a/app/requirements.txt
+++ b/app/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ aws-sns-message-validator==0.0.5
 boto3==1.28.31
 fastapi==0.101.1
 geoip2==4.7.0
-google-api-python-client==2.96.0
+google-api-python-client==2.97.0
 google-auth-httplib2==0.1.0
 google-auth-oauthlib==0.8.0
 PyYaml==5.3.1 # need to pin down the PyYaml version since the newest version is currently broken - https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/issues/724